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PAN Newsletter Winter 2017

Tackling corproate power head on

We know corporations already have much more power over our food system than they should, particularly in Washington, DC. Monsanto’s wildly inappropriate influence over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) review of glyphosate’s links to cancer is just the most recent example. Now, the new administration is plowing forward with some astonishing choices to lead our federal agencies — nominees who will ramp up corporate influence over policy in deeply troubling ways.